A precis of my work on the English Wikipedia, 2004-2017 (edit counts, articles by subject, and particularly notable articles)
2010-10-18–2016-07-13
finished
certainty: log
importance: 4
Over the more than decade I have worked on the English Wikipedia, I have written a few things. Some might wonder what, exactly, but not want to dig through >95,1331 edits (on English only). But even I don’t remember everything I have done!
Sources
I’ve done my best to pull together a list of my major contributions; I’ve based it on the results from the toolserver, specifically 2 of Soxred’s tools which return lists of pages created and articles most edited for a user:
Most edited articles:
Articles created:
Those lists are unreliable, however. They are incomplete; ‘created’ may be misleading, as I make many redirects which may be turned into an actual article by a later user (for example, I am credited with creating the valuable computer science article green threads when all I did was redirect that name to the main article on threads). The tool tries to filter out redirects, but may be wrong. The most-edited listings are also misleading in the sense that a great many edits on a page may simply be undoing vandalism; I do not list René Descartes below because my dozens of edits there are just reverts and I do not feel reverts are a particularly valuable service. Article writing is. Some such articles are listed where I have watched them for many years and feel that my supervision has risen to the level of a major contribution. Conversely, sometimes I have written articles offline and then added them as single giant edits with a few followup edits to fix formatting errors; such articles would not show up very highly on the most-edited list.
I am certain that some of the following entries are erroneous, and I have omitted some articles that should be included. But I have done what I can. I am especially proud of the highlighted articles such as the Medici bank, Brethren of Purity articles, and the Fujiwara no Teika article.
Subject areas
Psychology
Technology
Functional programming
History
- Medici bank
- House of Medici
- Scharfrichter
- Joshua Roll
- Intercursus Magnus
- Francesco Sassetti
- Tommaso Portinari
- Hamlet’s Mill
American history
Japanese history
Philosophy/religion
Islamic
Art
Japanese art
Philosophy/religion
Chinese
Literature
Chinese
Japanese
Anime/manga
- Oh My Goddess!
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Neon Genesis Evangelion:
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
Western
SF
- Dune (novel)
- R. A. Lafferty
- Across the Sea of Suns
- Against the Odds
- Change of Command
- Path of the Fury
- Hunting Party
- Heirs of Empire
- In the Ocean of Night
- Winning Colors
- Rules of Engagement (Elizabeth Moon novel)
- Once a Hero (novel)
- Prayers to Broken Stones
- Sporting Chance
- “Orphans of the Helix”
- Far Horizons
- The Armageddon Inheritance
- Mutineers’ Moon
- The Book of Fantasy
- Hyperion (Simmons novel)
- Blue Wizard Is About To Die!
- The Man Who Never Missed
- Fourth Mansions
- Gene Wolfe
- The Iron Dream
Star Wars
- Palpatine -(the early version was my pride and joy; it has since been dismembered)
- Lightsaber combat
- General Grievous
- Revan
- Great Jedi Purge
- Darth Vader
- Star Destroyer
- Yoda
- Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords
- Dark Empire
- “Chronology of Star Wars” -(deleted)
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Jedi Exile
This is based on summing total + deleted edits through Kate’s editcounter; this apparently leads to an underestimate, since the live editcount (2012-05-12) in Special:Preferences for User:Gwern is 42,400 edits versus 38,806 according to Kate.↩︎
My Teika article bears a unique distinction: it is the only Wikipedia work on which I have profited (as opposed to the 3 stalkers I earned at various points), by selling it to the New World Encyclopedia (a Moonie encyclopedia).↩︎